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Utah always has been a peculiar state, home to quivering green Jello, funeral spuds, 3.2 beer, and tired-looking men trailing gingham-clad mothers and flocks of kiddies.

But this autumn, Utah also is just plain abnormal: Temperatures on Thursday along the Wasatch Front were to soar into the upper-80s, roughly 15 degrees warmer than average for this time of year. Wednesday's temperatures, too, were forecast for the same atypical range.

In southern Utah, too, summer weather seems to have thumbed its fiery nose at supposed second week of official autumn. Utah's Dixie looked for highs Thursday in the mid-90s, a degree or two cooler than Wednesday, but still 10-15 degrees warmer than average for the region.

The Utah Division of Air Quality rated air quality as "green," or healthy, through the midweek.

The Intermountain Allergy and Asthma website listed sagebrush as "very high," mold as "high," and other allergens "low" on its pollen index as of Wednesday.

For more extensive weather forecasts, visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/weather/.

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